On Developing a Temporally Ordered Energy Efficient Routing Model (TO-EER) using Bio-Inspired Optimization for MANET

Abstract

Mobile Ad-hoc Network (MANET) is described as the network of self-organizing mobile nodes with no fixed infrastructure. Because of the frequent changes in network topology, routing becomes a major challenge in MANET, which can reduce the overall network efficacy. As routing protocol has vital part in MANET, the energy-efficient routing model can enhance the network longevity with minimal rate of energy consumption. This paper uses Temporally Ordered Routing Algorithm (TORA) for attaining higher scalability rate and Elephant Herding Optimization (EHO) model for employing energy-efficient feature to the routing protocol. The computations of the proposed model include the length of the route (LR) in optimal route selection and energy level of routes (ER). It devises the routing problem as an optimization issue, further incorporates EHO for route selection that enhances the weighted rate of LR and ER. The experimentations are carried out using NS-3 simulation tool and the factors such as, delay, packet delivery ratio, throughput, reliability and rate of energy consumption. By comparing the results with the previous works, the efficiency of the proposed model is evidenced.